Woefuldane Bottom & Woefuldane Fm
Other OS name in the Parish of Minchinhampton
Historical Forms
- Wulfham Dene 14 BGliv,311
- Dane Bottom 1830 M
Etymology
, Wulfham Dene 14 BG liv, 311, Dane Bottom 1830 M ; Rudder 468 has an unsubstantiated tale of the place being the site of ' a greatbattle between Wolphgang the Saxon and Uffa the Dane ' but Dane Bottom simply means ' valley bottom ' , v. denu , cf. Phonol. § 13 ; the first el . is ' wolf meadow ' , v. wulf , hamm ; Woeful Lake (204infra ) is also an adaptation of an older p.n .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Amberley
- Aston Down
- Besbury Fm
- Box
- Burleigh
- Bury Moor
- Cowcombe Hill & Cowcombe Wood
- Forwood
- Gatcombe
- Hyde
- Longfords Ho
- St Chloe
- Trullwell
Other OS name
- Ball's Green
- Beechknapp
- Black Ditch
- Bubblewell
- The Bulwarks
- Burleigh Court
- Burnt Ash
- Camp Field
- Christow
- Claycombe
- The Close
- Crackstone
- Culver Ho
- Deanley
- The Devil's Churchyard & THe Devil's Elbow
- Dunkerspool
- Field Ho
- The Folly
- Frogmarsh
- Gatcombe Park & Gatcombe Wood
- Gillhays Copse
- Golden Valley
- Gydynap Lane
- Hampton Fields
- Heath Ho
- Highcroft
- Hollybush Fm
- Jacob's Knowle
- The Knap
- Knave-in-Hole
- The Knoll
- The Lammas
- Littleworth
- The Long Stone
- Marley Lane
- New Barn
- Peaches Fm
- Pennyhill Wood
- Quarry Hill
- Ragged Cot
- Scarhill Lane
- Spriggs Well
- Theescombe
- Wall's Quarry
- Well Hill Grove
- Wimberley Mill
- Whitfield's Tump
- Wood Ho